Time to drop the qq plugin?

[Christopher Forsythe]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:52 AM, microcai <microcai at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> 于 2011年05月11日 00:39, Christopher Forsythe 写道:
> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:00 AM, microcai <microcai at fedoraproject.org
> >wrote:
> >
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> >> On 2011年03月25日 09:13, Etan Reisner wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 01:35:44PM +1300, Eion Robb wrote:
> >>>> As weight to the argument, there's an actively developed third party
> >>>> prpl providing a newer version of QQ.
> >>>> https://code.google.com/p/libqq-pidgin/
> >>>
> >>> We gave the openq people access to mtn (ipp.openq) when they stepped up
> >> to
> >>> maintain the current prpl (though they have clearly stopped
> contributing
> >>> to us, I'm assuming openq itself is also fairly dead).
> >>>
> >>> Do we want to consider doing that with the libqq-pidgin authors? Give
> >> them
> >>
> >> I AM one of the  libqq-pidgin maintainers.
> >> Actually I was thinking about inform you guys about migrating the
> >> libqq-pidgin when it get ready.
> >>
> >> And , yeah, it works now. But due to *not upstream* so it does no exist.
> >> Few people have tried. We need more test. And brings it to the upstream
> >> seems to be the right choice.
> >>
> >>
> > I'd think it would be better to just direct those who want qq to this
> prpl
> > rather than ship this one since it's so new.
> >
> > Chris
>
> People who need it will use it no matter how *new* it is.
> People who don't need it will not use it no matter how stable it is.
>
> And by including it, we help the people who really need but unable to
> get it by himself.
>
> So, hey, please merge it back, don't erase it.
>
>
>
Sure, people who need it will need it, that's assumed. The problem becomes
that if Pidgin ships this prpl, or libpurple does, then it becomes a matter
of supporting it on the pidgin side.

I'd suggest a url inside the account window that points to the new prpl
until it is deemed ready to go, if ever, or something along those lines. I
don't agree with just adding some random prpl just because "people will need
it". That's an egregious lack of restraint that shouldn't be the policy of
any application with a user base even 1/8th the size of pidgin, finch and
libpurple.

Chris
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